#academicfreedom — Public Fediverse posts
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The New York Times - Breaking News, US News, World News and Videos [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·Inside the D.O.J.’s Investigation of Fauci and Other Virus Scientists
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/health/fauci-morens-covid-prosecutions.html
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The New York Times - Breaking News, US News, World News and Videos [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·Inside the D.O.J.’s Investigation of Fauci and Other Virus Scientists
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/health/fauci-morens-covid-prosecutions.html
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The New York Times - Breaking News, US News, World News and Videos [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·Inside the D.O.J.’s Investigation of Fauci and Other Virus Scientists
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/health/fauci-morens-covid-prosecutions.html
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The New York Times - Breaking News, US News, World News and Videos [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·Inside the D.O.J.’s Investigation of Fauci and Other Virus Scientists
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/health/fauci-morens-covid-prosecutions.html
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The New York Times - Breaking News, US News, World News and Videos [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·Inside the D.O.J.’s Investigation of Fauci and Other Virus Scientists
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/health/fauci-morens-covid-prosecutions.html
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Global Edition
Breaking News
FRANCE-INDIA
Shuriah Niazi
France has set an ambitious goal of…
#France #FR #Europe #EU #academic #AcademicFreedom #Education #HigherEducation #Leadership #News #transformative #university
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"We turn now to new revelations from a former Justice Department attorney who’s filed a whistleblower complaint claiming that the Trump administration task force charged with investigating antisemitism pushed universities into massive settlements despite turning up little to no evidence of antisemitism on campus.
Haley Van Erem, a former career attorney in the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, said in her complaint that the government’s probes into schools like Harvard, Brown and Columbia were, quote, “an unlawful process designed to achieve predetermined political goals.”
Brown University settled for $50 million. Columbia settled for $200 million. Harvard refused to settle, and a judge threw out a case against the university.
Democratic Representative Jamie Raskin, the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, has launched a probe into the whistleblower allegations. He wrote in a statement, quote, “It has been apparent that its investigations have been structured deliberately to harass and intimidate rather than protect anyone from discrimination.”"
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/8/21/antisemitism_universities_trump
#USA #Antisemitism #Zionism #Israel #Universities #Trump #AcademicFreedom #Trump #Columbia #Harvard #HigherEd
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https://chronicleofhighereducation.substack.com/p/ottessa-moshfegh-a-fired-professor
>>As popular entertainment becomes ever-more permissive, even extreme, transgressive art and literature have become newly problematic in the classroom. <<
#VinitaPrabhakar #SouthFloridaStateCollege #AcademicFreedom #Censorship #HigherEducation #Puritanism #Literature
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The #Trump admin moved Thursday to restrict the duration of #visas for #InternationalStudents, #exchange workers & #journalists.
The new rule from #DHS creates a fixed time period for F visas for students, J visas that allow visitors on #CulturalExchange programs to work in the US, & I visas for members of the #media. Those visas are currently available for the duration of the program or employment in the #US.
#law #immigration #AcademicFreedom #FreeSpeech #FreePress
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-change-visa-regulations-foreign-students-journalists-2026-07-16/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement -
More universities want to be neutral. Will it work at SMU?
SMU is the latest school to adopt an institutional neutrality policy, refraining from taking stances on “external events, issues, or conflicts.”
#HigherEd #Edu #SMU #JayHartzell #InstitutionalNeutrality #USPol #AcademicFreedom #SMU #Dallas #Texas #UT #JessicaMa #Polarization
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More universities want to be neutral. Will it work at SMU?
SMU is the latest school to adopt an institutional neutrality policy, refraining from taking stances on “external events, issues, or conflicts.”
#HigherEd #Edu #SMU #JayHartzell #InstitutionalNeutrality #USPol #AcademicFreedom #SMU #Dallas #Texas #UT #JessicaMa #Polarization
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More universities want to be neutral. Will it work at SMU?
SMU is the latest school to adopt an institutional neutrality policy, refraining from taking stances on “external events, issues, or conflicts.”
#HigherEd #Edu #SMU #JayHartzell #InstitutionalNeutrality #USPol #AcademicFreedom #SMU #Dallas #Texas #UT #JessicaMa #Polarization
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More universities want to be neutral. Will it work at SMU?
SMU is the latest school to adopt an institutional neutrality policy, refraining from taking stances on “external events, issues, or conflicts.”
#HigherEd #Edu #SMU #JayHartzell #InstitutionalNeutrality #USPol #AcademicFreedom #SMU #Dallas #Texas #UT #JessicaMa #Polarization
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More universities want to be neutral. Will it work at SMU?
SMU is the latest school to adopt an institutional neutrality policy, refraining from taking stances on “external events, issues, or conflicts.”
#HigherEd #Edu #SMU #JayHartzell #InstitutionalNeutrality #USPol #AcademicFreedom #SMU #Dallas #Texas #UT #JessicaMa #Polarization
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🔴 PhD student Tesfaye lost his Supervisor over pro-Palestine Activism
#Palestinasolidaritet #InternationellSolidaritet #solidarity #stockholmsuniversitet #studentactivism #phdstudent #academicfreedom #freedomofspeech #freepalestine #stopthegenocide -
The New York Times - Breaking News, US News, World News and Videos [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·
Indiana Professor Removed From Class Over White Supremacy Lesson
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👩🎓 🤷 What can we do when academic freedom is hijacked by ideology?
@AvSchroeder from our team has given this a lot of thought and presents CAREFUL.
Read more on the 👩💻 𝒲𝒾𝒩𝑜𝒟𝒶 ℒ𝒶𝒷 𝒥𝑜𝓊𝓇𝓃𝒶𝓁 🗞️:
https://winoda.de/en/2025/10/10/the-magic-of-acronyms-part-3-careful/What are your thoughts? Do we already have all we need with FAIR, CARE, the Nagoya Protocoll and Barcelona Declaration? Are we saturated or is there still a need for more?
#FAIR #CAREPRINCIPLES #Nagoya #barcelonadeclaration #CAREFUL #blog #article #WiNoDa #fairdata #academicfreedom
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#Texas just gutted #FreeSpeech on #college #campuses. Is your state next?
New laws in the Lone Star State will silence dissent and undermine #faculty authority.
By Laura Benitez and Jonathan Friedman
July 14, 2025"As thousands of students return to college campuses this fall, they will find themselves stepping into an environment reshaped by political and ideological mandates. Across the country, state legislators have been racing to exert new influence over free expression in higher education. Now, Texas has surged to the forefront, closing its 2025 legislative session by passing two alarming laws that take effect Sept. 1.
"Signed by Gov. Greg Abbott (R) in June, the new laws amount to a stunningly aggressive legislative crackdown on campus protest (#SB2972) and academic shared governance (#SB37) at public colleges and universities. The laws will not just silence dissent and undermine faculty authority in Texas; they provide a blueprint for how to dismantle academic freedom and chill speech on campus state by state.
"Only a few years ago, conservative lawmakers railed against college 'free-speech zones,' arguing that liberal administrators were muzzling students on the rest of campus. In 2019, Texas legislators joined other states in taking action by declaring all outdoor spaces on public campuses open for protest and speech by students, employees and the general public.
"Now, some of the same legislators have done an about-face. The campus protest law actually directs public colleges and universities to implement a version of free-speech zones and adopt sweeping limitations on protests. #Encampments? Banned. #Megaphones or #speakers during 'class hours'? Forbidden — if anyone claims your 'expressive activity' is one that 'intimidates others' or 'interferes' with an employee’s duties. Even wearing a mask during a protest — something many do for safety — could land a student or employee a disciplinary hearing resulting in 'sanctions.' And any expressive activity between 10 p.m. and 8 a.m. is off-limits altogether."
Read more:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/07/14/texas-campus-free-speech/Archived version:
https://archive.ph/2LuBD#TexasProtestLaws #ProtestLaws #ProtestLawsTexas #Project2025 #AntiProtestLaws #Authoritarianism #SilencingFreeSpeech #Censorship #AcademicFreedom #AntiMaskLaws #Fascism #USPol #CivilLiberties #Texas
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Project 2025: Because nothing says 'freedom' like the government telling educators what they can and can't teach. Orwell would be proud. #AcademicFreedom #BreakingNews #WTF #ClownShow #BigBrainTakes #ICYMI #Fail #Project2025
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/06/project-2025-project-esther-university-crackdown-plans-00272750 -
#Trump demands unprecedented control at #ColumbiaUniversity, alarming scholars and speech groups
By COLLIN BINKLEY and JAKE OFFENHARTZ
Updated 7:52 PM EDT, March 14, 2025NEW YORK (AP) — "The Trump administration brushed aside decades of precedent when it ordered Columbia University to oust the leadership of an academic department, a demand seen as a direct attack on academic freedom and a warning of what’s to come for other colleges facing federal scrutiny.
"Federal officials told the university it must immediately place its #MiddleEasternStudies, #SouthAsianStudies, and #AfricanStudies Department under 'academic receivership for a minimum of five years.' The demand was among several described as conditions for receiving federal funding, including $400 million already pulled over allegations of #antisemitism.
"Across #academia, it was seen as a stunning intrusion.
"'It’s an escalation of a kind that is unheard of,' said Joan Scott, a historian and member of the academic freedom committee of the American Association of University Professors [#AAUP]. 'Even during the #McCarthy period in the United States, this was not done.'"
https://apnews.com/article/columbia-university-mahmoud-khalil-ice-arrests-1921e26f6b5a8585ad5cbda790846324
#CharacteristicsOfFascism #USPol #Censorship #DumbingUsDown #Authoritarianism #SilencingDissent #AcademicFreedom #Fascism -
#US / Harvard Divinity School administrators resign citing university's tolerance of anti-muslim bias and attacks on pro-Palestinian voices
Two administrators at Harvard Divinity School's Religion and Public Life program have resigned, citing the university's failure to address a hostile environment towards Muslims and those critical of Israel.
Hussein Rashid, the assistant dean, explicitly accused Harvard of tolerating racist and defamatory statements against the program, particularly from Jewish groups like Hillel and #Chabad.
[…] He cited as an example an Instagram post by Harvard Chabad, led by Rabbi Hirschy Zarchi, that said: “There are numerous Harvard academic centers that essentially function as Hamas or Palestinian embassies,” citing the Religion in Public Life center “in its entirety,” and concluding, “it’s stunning that there’s no call for some of these centers to be shut down or rebuilt in its entirety.”
@israel
@palestine
@academicchatter
#IsraelOccupation
#IsraelWarCrimes
#Islamophobia
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"#ThePalestineException opens as #CampusEncampments increase across the US in protest against #Israel’s war in #Gaza."
Documenting the Fight Against The #Palestine Exception: A Conversation w/ #Filmmakers #JanHaaken & #JenniferRuth
https://speakingoutofplace.com/2024/09/03/documenting-the-fight-against-the-palestine-exception-a-conversation-with-filmmakers-jan-haaken-and-jennifer-ruth/
#cinéma #documentary #cinéastes #StudentProtests #GazaSolidarityEncampments #GazaSolidarity #PalestineSolidarity #AcademicFreedom #FreeSpeechOnCampus #CampusActivism #USpol #USpolitics @palestinetrailer: https://youtu.be/0Uj71mtIQIY
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Added to my "must read" list: "The Prosecution of Professor Chandler Davis: #McCarthyism, #Communism, and the Myth of #AcademicFreedom", Steve Batterson's chronicle of a leftist #Michigan professor and his impressive battle against those who wished him silenced. Fascinating review in #SolidarityUSA journal #AgainstTheCurrent. #Academia #History #Socialism #RedScare #CPUSA #Politics #UM #UMich #UniversityOfMichigan #Literature #Books https://againstthecurrent.org/atc229/chandler-davis-dissent-and-solidarity/
